Forest Management

• Legal standing for prescribed burns among proposed changes to B.C. forest laws

  Forests Minister Bruce Ralston said B.C.'s rules and practices need to be updated in the face of climate change and the growing frequency and severity of extreme weather events. 

  Environment

  Oct 31, 2023
  
• B.C.’s wildfire crisis was forecast, but it arrived decades sooner than expected

  The warming and drying trend that began in the mid-2000s coincided with pine beetle outbreaks that left swaths of B.C.'s forests dead, dry, brittle and ripe for wildfire.

  Fire

  Sep 11, 2023
  
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• N.B. Green leader calls province’s State of the Forest report ‘incomplete’

  The long-awaited State of the Forest report is being criticized as "incomplete" by the leader of the province's Green Party.

  Environment

  Aug 25, 2023
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• MLAs say Department of Agriculture is failing N.B. maple industry

  New Brunswick's maple industry wants more access to Crown land — a request the Department of Agriculture should get behind, some MLAs say.

  Economy

  Sep 16, 2022
• Tree planting efforts can’t keep up with wildfire destruction, evidence shows

  Wildfire is a natural part of a forest’s lifecycle, but climate-fueled fires are so ferocious they incinerate entire stands together with seeds that start regrowth.

  Environment

  Sep 9, 2021
• Trump and California governor trade barbs on Twitter over wildfires

  Last year Trump made a similar threat as wildfires devastated Malibu and Paradise, California -- accusing the state of ``gross mismanagement'' of forests.

  Trending

  Nov 3, 2019
• Nova Scotia names committee members to advise on ecological forest management

  Those appointed by Iain Rankin represent environmental groups, industry, the Mi'kmaq and academia.

  Environment

  Oct 18, 2019